Olympic sprinter Letsile Tebogo is a real-life hero! Tebogo, who received an award as men’s track athlete of the year, also won Botswana’s first Olympic gold medal in any sport when he zoomed through the 200m track at the Paris Games forging a new African record of 19.46. Recently, Tebogo sprang into action when torrential rains flooded Gaborone. With his trusty Toyota Land Cruiser, Tebogo pulled several waterlogged cars to dry land as water levels rose, wreaking havoc and engine malfunctions. But that’s not all!

Letsile Tebogo didn’t start out with athletic ambitions